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CON, ress .nnot repo. change or touch.
In pursuance Of this conspiracy to promote Canadian
interests at the cost Of own. President Cleveland
ignored wholly tho remedy Congress provide to stop
the hnrassment OF fishermen the lawless oapt
ure and lining OF their vessels That
of nonintcrcourse to Canadian be He stolidly
refused to apply this effective cure and permitted the
Canadian cruisers to rip and among our mackere
fleets without word of remonstrance But his most
daring contribution the conspiracy against the grow
ing strength OF the Republic was an order to Daniel
Mannings successor to bond the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way under the dead statute o. July % 1856 H. would
have hurt his country less II he had finished Benedict
Arnod's work and surrendered West Point to the
British.
WAR. NOT COMMERCE.
The Canadian Pacncs exercise Of this wickedly con.
cedef right Is not commerce 1t Is That corp
ton stuboorny refuses to enter into nens for
fxet rates with any OF lines and
insolently declares its purpose and to follow its
cutting downward till it gets below nothing It's agents
In New-iork and Chicago are nstructc l. instantly
the publication Of OF trapscontinenta tariffs to
publish Canadian Pacific rates from 10 to Is per cent
less Our country swarms with the ra1ic administers
OF this hostile corporation from San Francisco the
coast TO the boundary; from Boston to Pha ielpha:
from St Pal down the Mississippi Valley to st. Louis
commercial line west from NewYork to Port
land In Oregon. Over this immense territory 1t Is the
constant experience of our transconrnrnta lines that
after naming as their ratios shippers the lowest they
find published by the Canadian Pacific they not
low enough the business The pirate gets it.
The dsgraceful iton can DO appreciated from
these two facts First the traffic agents OF the Do nnion
railroad camped territory under imperative
orders from headquarters Ia Montreal to promptly make
reductions below any figures whatever that may DO
named by the agents OF the Union Pacific and Northern
Pacific companies, eastpound business from Puget
Sound aud westboun business from Chicago; second.
on Of Semi her ast a
train by the Canadian Paolho IN connection
with the semi Canadian Manitoba road from Chicago TO
Victoria Puget Scum l. distance OF 1881 miles for
S25 for the round trip ticket The price OF such ticket
that day by the cheapest OF the American line, was $685.
and the service could not have been enered for less
money and Welded living profit The return coupons
OF thess cuhroat tickets were pc dled out by their
holders and put up to he rafiet for In the drinking
saloons Of Seattle and Tacoma for from five to eight
dollars each Down this competitive slide to ruin the
American roads cannot far They the property OF
Individuals and not Of Dominion. an this property Is
mortgaged and must earn its interest But IL Is
matter OF no moment If the Canadian Pacific is run
without profit only but any extent OF dead loss
1t all the taxable property and industry OF Canada
behind it to make up losses.
UNITED STATES PROPERLY DESTROYED.
Bear in mind that the American roads on which MT
Cleveland has authorized the Canadian Pacific to make
this piratca warfare are properties OF the ULited
States and Nation Institutions The charters OF these
traEscontinenta lines make each OF hun. in terms,
post route military road subject to the Of the
United States for postal military naval and all other
Government service" They materially and polit-
icay part OF the Republic. Yet President Cleveland
has granted license TO foreign Power to make war on
them Two OF these roads the Central Pacific and the
Union Pacific largely indebted to the United States
They can pay their debts only out OF their traffic But
Mr. Cleveland has licensed hostile foreign railroad TO
take away their ami diminish their incomes. The
unpatriotsm of his act deserves impeachment Tho
stupidity OF 1t In sworn custodian of the pubic inter
ests Will be appreciated when the Canadian Pacihcs
licensed cutthroat competition will be plead In bar TO
suits to collect Governments claims against these
two corpora atoms.
Alas for the want OF President like Andrew Jackson!
/ Listen to this story OF disgrace On the "a OF
November instant the general tr'ls manager Of tho
Canadian Pacific Railroad caused the publication in the
PRINCIPAL Chicago newspaper In the form 81 reporters
interview with himself, of the um un OF his Imperial
corporation, viz: that possibly 1t might make some sort
OF agreements wi the American southern AM middle
transcontnental roais that the Canadian raclhc was
really inclined to be peaceful on the basis that would
give 1t fair share OF the Pacific Coast business. and
that share IL would have whether II peace or war
that the American roads had factiousy persisted I'm
making low rates and as consequence had ma the
business Improbable to ALL that though the American
roads said the Donplon road that II hal business
participate ia trao. they could not get away
the fact that 1t did anticipate In It, AMI the com
petition could not Ignore frowned out Of exist
ence" that the talk OF compromise with our southern
and middle transcontinenta lnss did not ncnic tho
Northern Pacific, with which It was to be war TO the
knife -" that Canadian Pacific. whether it got the
business made the rates ont OF the Pngct Sound
country and the Northwest aud between It's hostility
and that of It's first cousin and faithful ally. the Mani
toba road the Northern Pacific was to be placed be-
tween the upper and neither Canadian mlsonos that
he fully authorized TO treat for settlement tho
pirate treating with southern transcontinental lines,
had imperative orders fron President Van Horne
not TO include the Northern Pacific In the compromised
and the Canadian Pacific would certaiLy not become
party to any agreement which included that company
IL is a United States military. naval and postal road
that this insolent hireng OF foreign corporation
threatens thru ish American newspaper to grind 10
powder between the upper and lower milsones OF Can
adian hatred And the threat Is uttered BY the authority
| and permission OF Grover Cleveland
Oh FOR DANIEL MASNING!
Neu- York. Nov 49, 1897
INCIDENTS ~ SOCIETY.